Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is part two of the half-time

adjustment series. In today's lesson, John is going to take adjustment number three and

adjustment number four in his recent series, Half-Time Adjustments. Now, I will be joined

by Chris Goady and we're going to listen to John share adjustment three, adjustment four,

and then Chris and I will be back with you and we're going to break down how we're applying

these adjustments to the half-time of our business during these times of crises. Now, if you want to

go and download the worksheet and follow along with John, you can go to MaxwellPodcast.com

forward slash half-time, click on the bonus resource button and you will be able to follow along.

Again, thank you for joining us. Here is John Maxwell.

Observation number three, our biggest crisis is our loss of values.

I'm not trying to in any way underestimate the crisis that we have. We all know that there's racial

inequality. We all know that it's wrong. We all know that it's a cancer in our culture. We all

know this. I'm not trying to minimize anything that is before us, the pandemic. I'm not, I'm not,

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not ignoring this, but listen to me very carefully. I'm going to

repeat it. Our biggest crisis is our loss of values. I know that to be true because in 1992,

Larry Kirschbaum, who was the CEO of Time Warner, I was writing for Time Warner at the time,

Coleman in New York City, we had a long dinner and it was during the Enron crisis and it was the

beginning of this corporate culture of deceitfulness and fraud and and quick and easy dollars to be

made and literally leaving employees with holding a, a, a, a bad outcome, an empty bag.

An Enron had just hit and was major news and so Larry said, John, I want you to write a book for

me on business ethics. And I said, well, I can't do that. He said, why is it because there's no such

thing as business ethics? He said, well, what do you mean? Look at Enron and he began to name

...